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Life isn’t always happy. Plan moments of happiness.

It may not be shocking news to many of you that life is not always easy. There are times when circumstances of life avalanche a person in challenges leaving them feeling overwhelmed. Many reasons are presented why not to be happy, at peace, to live instead in emotional pain. I am not suggesting that we must numb or hide those feelings. It’s just that at some point a decision must be made because why live a miserable life? To me that seems like wasted time. I don’t want to be miserable do you? To dig myself out of the avalanche I plan moments of happiness.

Plan a small moment of happiness everyday. Make it a ritual. The whole world can go to heck in a hand-basket with things that are out of my control but I will have 5 minutes of happiness darn it! For me I have my morning hug with my youngest daughter. She comes and gives me a big hug and we check in with each other and talk. This is always a moment of happiness for me. We both look forward to it. After a grueling week this week, I loaded up the kids in the car and my cousin in-law came along too and we went to one of my favorite places in Northern Arizona. A place I tend to always feel happy. The picture above came from that place and the idea came to me that life doesn’t have to be one or the other, happiness and times of great challenge can coexist like the cactus and daisies do in this picture. It is possible but sometimes you have to make that happiness happen with planned moments of happiness.

As a side note about this place I learned from a park ranger there that scientists from the local university found that this area is located on a lay line. A lay line is a line of electromagnetic energy in the Earth that causes the ions of the air to become positively charged. These positive ions react with the body and make it feel better, think better, and work better. There was work done to prove this, which I will go into more detail about at another time. The point I’m making here is that by taking action to go to this place, I knew I would feel better. Find a similar place that you can go to. Do an activity you love to do. Be with people that you feel accepted, comfortable and at peace with and hang out. Get some good vibes and create a happy memory, a happy moment. Just one planned moment of happiness can go along way.

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Sophia Tesch is a commentator, blogger, writer and web content creator. Sophia writes about life experiences, self-empowerment, civic engagement and politics from an Independent Moderate point of view. In addition to her own blogs she contributes content to Yahoo! Voices and Helium.com. Sophia currently resides in Mesa, Arizona with her husband and children while she pursues her Communication Degree. Visit http://www.sophiawrites.com to learn more.

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HI there, Sophia! I love this! Yes, I firmly believe that we train ourselves to have certain expectations and so often at an early age, we are trained to look for flaws….it’s the “what’s wrong with this picture” mode. If we can lovingly begin to train ourselves (and our children) about the power of looking for what’s “right” in the picture, we can surprise ourselves at how the happiness moments will grow in volume. We train ourselves to be stronger physically. We train ourselves to eat well. It is TIME for us to train ourselves to think well, so yes, go out and find that golden egg on a daily basis! Thanks for the post!